More info revealed on the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi0:58

One of the suspects in the grisly murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Dr Salah al-Tubaigy (above), trained at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine in 2015. Picture: The SabahSource:Supplied

A SAUDI doctor accused of the grisly assassination of a prominent international journalist in Turkey studied forensic medicine in Australia, it has emerged.

Turkish authorities say Dr Salah al-Tubaigy was among 15 men present at the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, when Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi is believed to have met a brutal end on October 2.

The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine confirmed that Dr al-Tubaigy spent three months training as a forensic pathologist at the Melbourne facility in 2015.

Institute director Professor Noel Woodford told the ABC he did not meet the Saudi surgeon during his Australian placement but understood he voiced a particular interest in the field of mass disaster victim identification.

However his predecessor, Stephen Cordner, was one of the Saudi surgeon’s Australian mentors and recalled the experience in a radio interview on Wednesday.

“I remember Dr Tubaigy,” he told ABC radio.

“He became really the senior forensic doctor in Saudi Arabia, he was head of the Saudi forensic medicine commission.”

Turkish forensic police officers search for evidence at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on October 17 after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Picture: Ozan Kose/AFPSource:AFP

Turkish forensic officers search the garage at the Istanbul home of Saudi Arabia's Consul General Mohammad al-Otaibi on October 17. Picture: Ozan Kose/AFPSource:AFP

Turkish police officers work in front of the Saudi Arabian consulate general residence as investigations continue into the disappearance and suspected murder of Jamal Khashoggi . Picture: Chris McGrath/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

The paper claimed the device captured incriminating conversations between Saudi officials as they brutalised their victim and that Mr Khashoggi can be heard screaming as his fingers are hacked off before he was “injected with an unknown drug”.

It said Saudi Consul General Mohammed al-Otaibi is heard on the tape telling those allegedly torturing the journalist: “Do this outside; you’re going to get me in trouble.”

His comment was reportedly met with the reply: “Shut up if you want to live when you return to (Saudi) Arabia”.

Mr al-Otaibi, who fled Turkey after the alleged killing, has been relieved of his post and will face an investigation, an official government statement said.

Saudi Interior Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud has said claims “about orders to kill [Mr Khashoggi] are lies and baseless allegations against the government of the kingdom”.